Year 5/6 Science Club – Friction

6th October 2023Rebecca Barnett

Over the last 3 weeks we have been investigating friction. We started by looking at how far toy cars moved on different surfaces. We looked for similarities and differences between the surfaces. We found that rough bumpy surfaces had more friction than smooth shiny ones. We used what we found to create our own surface to try and slow down a ball.

This week, we tested our surfaces to see which slowed the ball down quickest. We predicted which surface would be the best, created a results table and then found the average distance.

Crew Barnett – Reading Week

6th October 2023Rebecca Barnett

We have had a busy week for reading week. On Monday, we watched an online Q&A with the author of How to Train your Dragon, Cressida Cowell. Then, we walked to the library in the afternoon.

On Wednesday, we linked reading to looking at Black History Month. We looked at the stories of some inspirational black women using the little people big dreams books.

We have also been working really hard in accelerated reader this week to try and improve our crew average. We have managed to improve our minutes by 4 this week.

Crew Knowles: Black History Month

6th October 2023Rebecca Knowles

This morning in crew, we looked at the story ‘Coming to England’ as we are learning more about The Windrush Generation. Coming to England is a true story of a person called Floella Benjamin. The children were really engaged in thinking about how people might have felt, and what they might be thinking as they came to England for the first time on the Empire Windrush.

Why not listen to the story for yourself here?

Sharing our Stories: 06/10/2023

6th October 2023Geoff Hewitt

Beautiful Work This Week

At The Coalface: A Plover Expedition Story

Beautiful Curation in the XP Ideas Cafe!

Top of the Blogs

Crew MW’s School Trip @ Carcroft School

Beautiful Work from Scarlett @ XP Gateshead

Year 3 Glow Day Crew Maths and Science @ Plover

Rainforest Research @ Norton Juniors

Reading for Pleasure @ Green Top

Class 2 Make Bird Feeders @ Norton Infants

This Week in PE @ XP

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NSPCC ‘The Kindness Challenge’

6th October 2023Sophie Myers

Next week, we will be taking part in a week full of activities linking to Kindness. This is part of the NSPCC fundraising and awareness week.

We will be taking part in lots of fun activities during Crew each day and there will be lots of opportunities for children to complete Kindness Challenges at home too.

Next Friday, to raise money for the NSPCC, we will be holding a Non-Uniform Day for donations of £1.

Class 8 are reading about significant activists!

5th October 2023Aime Shaw

We have started reading our new text in year 2 today, which is called ‘Let the children march’. It is a beautiful text which explains how desegregation started in 1963 because of the influence of Martin Luther King Jnr. In collaborative groups, they all read sections of the text and then answered questions based on what they had read. I was really impressed with them today and how understanding and mature they have been about the subjects we have been discussing.

The children then wrote some sentences using some of the ambitious vocabulary that we had learnt from the text, such as; revolution, discrimination, activists, racism and equality. This is a picture of some of the children who had beautiful presentation today and I was very excited for George to be the second person to choose a sparkly pencil because of his gorgeous pre- cursive handwriting! Well done class 8…you impress me more and more every day!

Mrs Shaw x x x